I'm a big fan of Python, and i've made a few tiny contributions to it here and there.

I've done a number of things since 1995 which i call "mediators" (today the hip terms seem to be "active proxy", "transducer", or "transcoder", but the concept is the same). I created Crit, the first universally-accessible public annotation system for the Web, and MINSE, the first universally-accessible mathematics notation and display system for the Web, and Shodouka, a service that makes Japanese web pages viewable in any graphical browser even if you don't have Japanese fonts.

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I'm pretty disappointed with myself for not having
had the discipline to work more on it earlier. Owing to
this laziness, and in part to catastrophic failure of my
laptop (twice!), the latter half of the paper
is severely rushed. I would have preferred to include
lots more examples and explain things in more detail.
I'm annotating
the document with
Crit to
add some of the missing commentary.